here's everything you need to know about Aditya L-1, Isro's mission to study the Sun
BY - rivanshi rakhRai
Aditya-L1 will be launched on September 2 at 11:50 am from Sriharikota
The spacecraft will travel 1.5 million km from the Earth to the Lagrange 1 or L1 point between the Earth and the Sun
This distance is nearly four times that travelled by the Chandrayaan missions, but just 1% of the 150 million km between the Earth and the Sun
The Aditya-L1 mission will see the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) carry the 1,475-kg spacecraft to an ellipticalorbit around the Earth
This incredible journey will position the Aditya-L1 spacecraft in an elliptical orbit
The mission has much potential for solar science, as it will provide scientists with crucial information about things like solar flares, magnetic fields, and even the Sun's outermost layer, called the corona
The satellite comes equipped with seven different tools, each of which is meant to probe different layers of the Sun
Four will be positioned at L1 to directly observe the Sun, while the other three will conduct on-the-spot analyses of particles and fields